The WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team is raising serious questions about a critical tool that Maryland consumers use to select a physician after the profile of a doctor with a connection to an alleged Baltimore County pill mill was found on it with inaccurate information.

When the Drug Enforcement Administration shut down the alleged pill mill in Lutherville in the spring of 2012, some medical careers were shut down, too. The clinic medical director's license was revoked, and a physician's assistant surrendered her license to practice medicine.

Internist Dr. Sohail Aman could no longer write prescriptions for the addictive narcotics that authorities said were flowing out of the clinic. The day of the raid, he voluntarily surrendered those privileges to the DEA.

Given that information, the I-Team was surprised to find that Aman is now gainfully employed and working for the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene at the Eastern Shore Hospital Center in Cambridge.

When I-Team reporter Deborah Weiner confronted him, he said he was allowed to prescribe all medicine again.

"If you are practicing with your expertise and you are treating patients right, ethically and morally, then I don't see what is wrong with that," he told Weiner.

Aman's hiring raises issues with board's website

The state of Maryland would not answer specific questions about his hiring, but Aman's case raises a number of other issues, specifically about the website maintained by the Maryland Board of Physicians, which is meant to help consumers choose a doctor.

When the I-Team checked on Aman on the website, his profile showed he also held medical licenses in Ohio and Kansas, but that wasn't true, Weiner reported. He no longer held a license in Kansas, and the Ohio license was suspended five months earlier as a result of the DEA action for prescription writing.

Yet the MBP website read, "No disciplinary actions reported during the last 10-year period" on his profile.

Aman was bound by a consent agreement to report the Ohio suspension to Maryland, which he said he did.

"You can ask the board of Maryland. I self-reported and I have a proof," Aman told Weiner.

The Board of Physicians, whose officials declined to do an on-camera interview, said state law prevents it from confirming to the I-Team whether Aman did in fact self-report.

But Weiner reported that when the I-Team pointed out factual problems with his profile, the state corrected it. The disciplinary action was finally added and the Kansas license information was removed.

"I think it's very troubling. The data's not correct," said Gene Ransom, the chief executive officer of the state's medical society, MedChi. "Suspensions or terminations from out of state should go up very quickly. Some of those suspensions could be for public health matters, and as a practice, those should be rather fast."

Also, at the time 11 News checked, the I-Team learned that Aman did not hold hospital privileges at any of the medical institutions listed, which included Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

The board said that information is only updated every six months by the hospitals. To date, it remains unchanged, Weiner reported.

MedChi said Aman's case may not be an isolated incident when it comes to problems with the Board of Physicians' website.